Playlist for the Weekend of July 25th

July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

This week we had to special guest DJ mixes.  The first one is from a Dancehall DJ collective called The Heatwave out of London. DJ Gabriel of The Heatwave provide a sizziln’ 30 minute mix. Then the bangin’ second hour was provided by Rhythm Lab friend DJ Retroblast out of Minneapolis.

First Hour
Adele - “Hometown Glory(High Contrast remix)”
JTodd - “xxdreamvoidxx”
Santogold & Diplo - “Guns of Brooklyn” (Mad Decent)
Valentina - “It’s Guilt Trip (Heatwave refix)”
Pete Rodriguez -”I Like it Like That (Aarone Jerome)”
Lykke Li - “I’m Good, I’m Gone (Black Kids Remix)”
Dilla Ghost Doom - “Sniper Elite feat. MF Doom” (Stones Throw)
Emiliana Torrini - “Me and Armeni”
JTodd - “Stop Foolin”


Guest DJ Mix from Gabriel of The Heatwave

Z Mavado - “Overcome”
Mr Vegas - “Mus Come A Road”
Lady Chann (Suncycle) - “Baby Chann”
YT, Million Stylez, Mr Williamz, Blackout JA, Iverse & Jah Knight - “Champion Sound”
Jah Dan & Matt Shadetek - “Go Round Payola (The Heatwave Special)”
Yungun - “Dirty Talk (The Heatwave Special)”
Lil Wayne & Mary J Blige - “Just Fine”
Durrty Goodz - “Boom Boom”
Natasja & Mr Lexx - “The One Night”
Roots Manuva & Toddla T - “Buff Nuff”
Dr Evil - “Fluffy”
Sean Paul - “Pleasure”
Busy Signal - “Wine Up Pon Me”
Mad Cobra & Tina Nunez - “Like This”
Bling Dawg - “Licky Licky”
De Tropix - “Oi”
Elephant Man & Lieutenant Stitchie - “What A Mighty God”

Second Hour
Guest DJ Mix from DJ Retroblast

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Playlist for the Weekend of July 18th

July 20, 2008 | 1 Comment

I just got back from the Brookyln.  I attended the Afropunk and Brooklyn Hip Hop festival. It was crazy.  My recap post is coming soon.  I have a great story that involves Keith Murray and my boy Don Cuco!  This week we had new music from Q-Tip’s forthcoming album(courtesy of the guys over at The Couch Sessions), Minneapolis MC Muja Messiah (courtesy of our man Jon Jon of Black Corners), Wale’s Mixtape about Nothing, and a new duo out of Brooklyn No Surrender (they performed at the Afropunk festival).

Audio coming later this week.

Listen

Hour 1

Wale - “The Perfect Plan”
Q-Tip -  “Gettin Up”
Ave.To - “Cuba Libre”
The Dynamics - “7 Nation Army”
Marlena Shaw - “California Soul (Diplo Remix)” (Verve)
Muja Messiah - “Growing Pains” (Black Corners)
No Surrender - “Young World”
DJ Mujava - “Township Funk” (Warp)
Santogold - “L.E.S. Artistes (Gramzilla Remix)” (Mad Decent)
Daedelus - “My Beau ft. Paperboy & Erika Rose”
Vampire Weekend - “Oxford Comma (Burntpiano Edit)”
Ratatat - “Falcon Jab”
Black Kids  - “Listen to Your Body Tonight”
Me & You - “United States of Africa” (Tru Thoughts)
Bird Peterson - “Big Country” (Flamin Hotz)
Thunderheist - “Jerk It”
Flying Lotus - “Rickshaw” (Warp)
PRGz - “Alabama”

Hour 2

Kid Cudi - “Heaven at Nite”
Jackson Conti - “Berimbau”
Hi Perspectives feat. Kissey Asplund - “Faster”
A Tribe Called Quest - “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo (Norman Cook Remix)”
Zaki Ibrahim - “You Choose”
Carlos Nino & Lil Sci - “Higher” (Shaman Work)
Jovian - “Grenadine Girl” (Solos)
Me & You - “Evan Vultures Cry” (Tru Thoughts)
The Bug - “Angry Feat. Tippa Irie”
Jonathan Frost - “I’ll Wait  For You”
N*E*R*D - “You Know What” (Star Trak)
Fonzworth Bentley - “Everbody feat. Kanye West, Andre 3000, Sa-Ra”
Spoon -  “Don’t You Evah (DJ Amaze & Alan Astor Mix)”
Eliot Lipp - “The Outside” (Mush)
Cannonball Jane - “Breaker Breaker”
Creature - “Brigitte Bardot”

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Free Mixtape: A Kid Named Cudi

July 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

2008 is the year of the mixtape. From Wale to Talib Kweli to the king of the mixtape Lil Wayne, this year has seen some real good mixtapes. Some of the mixtapes are better than some ‘official releases’.  Cleveland based Kid Cudi’s “A Kid Named Cudi” mixtape is definitely no different.  I am currently listening to it right now, and I am quite impressed.  “Embrace the Martian” and “Heaven at Nite” are two of my favorite tracks of the mixtape. Go grab it and let me know what you think.

Kid Cudi - “Heaven at Nite”

Crookers feat. Kid Cudi - “Embrace the Martian”

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Playlist for Weekend of July 4th

July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here is the playlist from the 4th of July weekend.

Listen

First Hour (Mixed by DJ Don Cuco)

Ancient Astronauts ” 36 Hours (Fort Knox Five Remix) ”
Datarock  ” Fa-Fa-Fa ”
Yoav ” Club Thing (Aaron LaCrate’s Gutter Mix) ”
Starkey ” Let You Go ”
Panthers ” Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Disco Dub) ”
Rhythm & Sound ” Poor People Must Work feat. Bobbo Shanti (Carl Craig Remix)
Wiley  “50/50″
dj marky & xrs ” lk feat. stamina mc ”
Tortured Soul “Why (DJ Spinna Remix)”
Motor City Drum Ensemble ” Get Slapped Up ”

Second Hour (Mixed by DJ Tarik)

Tabi Bonney - “Beat Rock”
No Surrender - “Godda Get It”
Seun Kuti & Egyptian 80 - “Mosquito Song”
Bun B - “If it was Up to Me feat. Junior Reid”
Daedelus - “Fair Weather Friend” (Ninja Tune)
Doomtree - “Drumsticks” (Doomtree)
Jahdan Blakkamoore - “Pure Riddim”
Ayro - “Bounce (DJ Spinna remix)”
Esau Mwamwaya  - “Chilombo”
MGMT - “Electric Feel (Justice Remix)”
Retro Kidz - “New Era”
Pursuit Grooves - “Too Much Time”
Crookers feat. Kid Cudi - “Embrace the Martian”
Dessa - “Sadie Hawkins” (Doomtree)
Tawiah - “Broken Heart”

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Playlist for Weekend of July 11th

July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I want to apologize for not posting as frequently as I would like. I have been swamped at work at RadioMilwaukee. I have also been blogging for our station blog (check it out).  I am also been working on a new site.  There will be some big changes in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.  I also just got back from Brooklyn. I was at the Afropunk and Brooklyn Hip Hop festivals.  There will be recap coming soon. Anyway here is last week’s playlist.

Listen

Hour 1
Bloc Party - “Mercury”
Invincible - “In the Mourning”
Ratatat - “Dura”
P.O.S. - “Stand Up(Let’s Get Murdered)”
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - “Planet Rock”
PPP - “On A Cloud ft. Karma” (Ubiquity)
Little Jackie - “The Stoop”
El Hijo De La Cumbia - “La Mara Tomasa” (ZZK)
Santogold - “Shove It (Toy Selectah Refix)”
88-Keys - “Just Like A Man ft. Guilty Simpson”
Zaki Ibrahim - “Lost in You”
The Carps - “Heaven Gates Hell’s Flames ft. Cool Kids”
Flying Lotus - “Tea Leaf Dancers (Rae Davis remix)”
J*Davey - “Sloow” (Interdependent)
PPP - “Angel(Instrumental)”
Kudu - “Let’s Finish (Sinden remix)”
Mickey Factz - “Up High”

Hour 2
Mulatu Astatke And His Ethiopian Quintet - “I Faram I Faram” (Worthy Records)
Kenny Dorham - “Afrodisia” (Blue Note Records)
Harold McKinney - “Ode To Africa” (Ubiquity - Luv N Haight)
Deodato - “September 13? (CTI Records)
Sons And Daughters Of Lite - “Ju Ju’s Door” (Luv N’ Haight)
David Axelrod - “And The Angel Said Unto Them” (RCA)
West African Cosmos - “Wuye’ Wuye’” (Strut)
Enrico Rava - “Pupa O Crisalide” (Right Tempo)
Azymuth - “Right On” (Milestone Records)
Cortijo Y Su Maquina Del Tiempo - “Gumbo” (Soul Jazz Records)
Tenorio Jr - “Nebulosa” (Mr. Bongo Records)
Caldera - “Himalaya” (Capitol Records)
Sun Ra - “Moon Dance”

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Video: Muja Messiah, “Patriot Act”

July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment

Our man Jon Jon just hit us up to a new video from Minneapolis rapper Muja Messiah.  It is from his forthcoming album “Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy”.  Patriot Act features Rhymesayers artist I Self Devine.

Muja is deep within a Minneapolis hip hop scene that has been caustically deemed college-rap, his voice rears songs that are blatantly street-centric, pushing thought and innovation alike with his critical take on Bush’s administration (”Patriot Act”) and his M.I.A. “Paper Planes” mash. – Culture Bully

With his underground hit “Patriot Act” that Muja earned national notoriety. The song’s brazen critique of President Bush and American foreign and domestic policies — “I’m supposed to be threatened by al Qaeda when I was always afraid of America first, the birthplace of some of the worst terrorists on this earth… Should I blame FEMA or blame Halliburton? I’m'a push the envelope like Bush did the votes, like Bush sniffing coke, but hey, nobody’s perfect” — are what landed him a coveted endorsement in December’s VIBE Magazine as one of the “51 Best MySpace Rappers,” a part of their first-annual nationwide survey.

- Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

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